to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities
you can take the white side this time, since I got to be white for our last chess game
While no team would complete the course in the first year, DARPA held subsequent events including the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007 to encourage investment in technology to enable vehicles to drive autonomously in cities.
Gustavo Castillo,
Forbes,
11 Dec. 2024
The announcement came at a celebration of the Endowment’s 100th anniversary held at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Still, the company had little trouble finding takers for the 349 copies to be made.
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
11 Dec. 2024
Galliano’s cultural impact and technical and inventive Margiela creations have had a halo effect on the brand as a whole, Margiela parent company OTB’s founder and chairman Renzo Rosso told Vogue Business in a recent interview.
Jennifer had set a goal to acquire a business in 2024 and believed the right opportunity would come without forcing it.
Lien De Pau,
Forbes,
11 Dec. 2024
Lula underwent surgery for an intracranial hemorrhage after the 79-year-old leader complained of headaches that doctors believed to be the result of a fall in a bathroom at his home in October.
Nearly 40% of White women had received any family planning services in the year before they were surveyed, compared with about 35% of Black women and 32% of Hispanic women, according to the survey data from 2022 and 2023.
Deidre McPhillips,
CNN,
11 Dec. 2024
The closest parallel, perhaps, is with the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, a nation which also received heavy criticism for its treatment of migrant workers.
Syria civil war Many in Syria are celebrating the stunning political fall of longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad that caught much of the world off guard.
Alexandra Banner,
CNN,
11 Dec. 2024
The speed of change in Syria over the past week caught even those in the Middle East by surprise but with a stockpile of chemical and biological weapons at stake, many are calling for quick and decisive action from the West.
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